AHP hosted a luncheon event featuring guest speaker Matthew Bowdish, M.D. who spoke about the critical health crises confronted by the colonists in the early years of the founding of the Jamestown Colony, which led to a massive loss of life from malnourishment and disease.
Jay Dickey gave a lecture to members of the Nevada State Genealogical Society entitled “The Great Migration: A Brief History of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1600's”.
AHP’s Jonathan Dickey gave a Zoom lecture to the Colonial Dames of the Seventeenth Century about one of the seminal events in the history of the Jamestowne Colony, Bacon’s Rebellion. His talk was entitled “Bacon’s Rebellion: The First American Revolution.”
AHP hosted a luncheon featuring Professor Carla Gardina Pestana, Chair of the History Department at UCLA. Professor Pestana discussed her book, “The World of Plymouth Plantation.”
AHP Hosted a luncheon presentation by Dr. Matthew Bowdish, a noted expert in the field of early New England medicine, and the current Surgeon of the California Mayflower Society. Dr. Bowdish discussed the practice of medicine in Plymouth Colony in the 1600’s, and how the Pilgrims coped with a variety of infectious diseases.
AHP hosted the 2nd annual “American Roots Celebration,” held in Fallon, Nevada. The event was co-hosted by six other lineage and historical societies, and featured educational talks on a variety of topics related to American history. The event was attended by over 200 members of the public, and received press coverage in the local news media.
AHP hosted a breakfast even to commemorate the ratification of the Bill of Rights on December 15, 1791. At the breakfast, Jay Dickey gave a short talk about the history of the Bill of Rights, and the ratification process.
AHP’s Jay Dickey gave a Zoom lecture entitled “The Road to Ratification: Chaos in America, 1787-1791.” Jay Dickey gave a luncheon presentation to the Daughters of the American Revolution on the subject of the Treaty of Alliance between America and France during the Revolutionary War. The talk was entitled “Franklin and France: The Treaty of Alliance 1777-1778.”
AHP’s Jay Dickey travelled to Prescott Arizona to deliver a talk to the local chapter of the Arizona Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. His talk was entitled “1783: The End of the War, and the Founding of the Society of the Cincinnati.”
President Jay Dickey gave a presentation at a luncheon of the Sagebrush chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Reno, Nevada on the subject of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Saving the Past: The Incredible Story of Jamestown Rediscovery’s Archaeological Work at Jamestown Colony, and Its Race to Save the Remaining Archaeological Record of the First Permanent English Settlement in North America On September 13, 2025, American Heritage Partners and the Northern California Company of the Jamestowne Society are co-hosting a special luncheon featuring a fascinating lecture about the archaeological work being done at the historic Jamestowne Colony, and the thousands of artifacts that have been unearthed at the site of the original Jamestown Fort and surrounding areas on the James River. Our special guest speaker will be Mr. Michael Lavin, Director of Collections and Conservation at Jamestown Rediscovery, whose archaeologists have uncovered countless treasures and continue to make astounding discoveries. Mr. Lavin will share some of those discoveries with us and explain the critical role that archaeology has played in our understanding of life in the earliest permanent English settlement in the New World. He also will talk about how climate change is posing an existential threat to the Jamestown site, and why public and private support for Jamestown Rediscovery’s work is so critically needed to complete the work before priceless artifacts are forever lost. Registration for the in-person luncheon will open soon.
President Jay Dickey gave a lecture to the Washington State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution in celebration of the Marquis de Lafayette’s Tour of America in 1824-25. 2024 marks the 250th anniversary of the tour, which is being commemorated this year in multiple ways throughout the United States. Lafayette, the last living General of the Continental Army, visited all 24 states in America, traveling over 6,000 miles in a period of 13 months. The largest crowds in American history to that point turned out to greet him everywhere he went, culminating in his appearance in Boston in June 1825 to lay the cornerstone of the monument being erected to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775. Hundreds of thousands of people attended the event, and afterwards, Lafayette filled several trunks with dirt from Bunker Hill to take home to France. The story of his Tour of America is one of the most compelling in American history.
